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Abuse from NHS nurses.

Miss.Omnivore99

I would like to ask others if they, too, have been abused verbally, mentally etc by nurses that work in General hospitals prior to being diagnosed with autism?

I've suffered horribly in both my local hospitals - Poole General and Royal Bournemouth - and now flatly refuse to go anywhere near any hospital, anywhere in Britain. 
I have been verbally abused and had the p!ss taken out of me by nurses and due to being physically disabled, have had to crawl on my hands and knees out of A&E whilst nurses have walked alongside me laughing. 

I’ve been ‘different’ all my life and have only recently been diagnosed with autism. Suddenly everything makes sense. It’s heartbreaking that I’ve had to wait my whole life for somebody to realise that all the ‘reports’ about me were wrong. I’m not mad and I’m not bad but after decades of mental health diagnoses - EUPD amongst others - I was told my troubles were “behavioural” and MH washed their hands of me. Everybody then assumed my meltdowns were delinquent behaviour and I ended up in prison. 
It was my saving grace. 

whilst in prison they had eyes on me 24/7 and realised that I had been wrongly convicted and wrongly labelled. After many assessments I was diagnosed with autism with Complex Post traumatic stress disorder. 

I left prison just under 2 years ago and have the support that I’d been denied all my life. 
People now know that I’m not a horrible person, I’m not violent or aggressive and I’m not attention seeking. 
Im 60 years old in a couple of months time and my life has finally started to be one that I would like to keep. I’ve been on life support twice when things have gotten really unbearable and now that I’ve left prison I have a great team of people supporting me. 

The one thing that causes me any upset now is wondering how many other women are out there going through the horrors that I have?

I hope they find somebody that sees them for who they truly are and not treated harshly because MH services and the NHS are still living in the dark ages and reject anyone that doesn’t fit the mould that they’re trying to squeeze them into. 

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  • I'm an autsitc. Male and I can relate to the behaviours being seen as bad or criminal people just don't seem to take the time to understand what might be happening 

  • in reply to Thpsguy

    Exactly. You’d think that nurses would be a bit more understanding though. Even though I’d not had my diagnosis at that point, my behaviour wasn’t aggressive or anything. I just couldn’t tolerate the noise, the bright lights and especially the touching. I have a phobia of being touched and it’s really severe. I’d tried to explain but they just ridiculed me at every turn. 
    when everyone was clapping on a Thursday for them I absolutely refused. I cannot stomach any of them. Along with those that remained silent. 
    As they say, ‘for evil to prosper it takes good men to do nothing’. 

  • in reply to Miss.Omnivore99

    Makes you wonder if they've even been trained to recognize people with ASD.

  • in reply to lostmyway

    I think they just don’t care.  Nurses have been put on a pedestal for so long that they have come to view themselves as special. They’re not. 
    They showed their level of care when they  performed dance routines whilst people were dying of covid on the wards behind them!

    Ive also witnessed a nurse slap an elderly woman across the face because she wouldn’t stay in her room! The lady had dementia and kept wandering around. I did report it but, as usual, it was my word against hers and none of the other nurses would stand up and be counted. 

    ALL nurses are disgusting. The only people they truly care about are themselves. Disgusting women. All of them. Utterly repulsive and disgusting. 

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  • in reply to lostmyway

    I think they just don’t care.  Nurses have been put on a pedestal for so long that they have come to view themselves as special. They’re not. 
    They showed their level of care when they  performed dance routines whilst people were dying of covid on the wards behind them!

    Ive also witnessed a nurse slap an elderly woman across the face because she wouldn’t stay in her room! The lady had dementia and kept wandering around. I did report it but, as usual, it was my word against hers and none of the other nurses would stand up and be counted. 

    ALL nurses are disgusting. The only people they truly care about are themselves. Disgusting women. All of them. Utterly repulsive and disgusting. 

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